Powerpoint won't play through the browser from the Internet

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Colin Luscombe

We are having trouble playing powerpoint slideshows from
the Internet in our school.
Slideshows (PPT or PPS files) which open fine through IE6
on our school Intranet are uploaded to our school website
for parents to see and our machines in the school will
then not open them from the Internet. When the option to
open or save appears we can save OK but when trying to
open we get "This page cannot be displayed."
The associations must be OK as they work fine locally
through Internet Explorer.
It is only from the Internet we have a problem. The
naming conventions are OK, ie no capitals or spaces in
the filenames. We are using Windows XP SP1a and IE6.
Any ideas?
 
I'm thinking you might want to ask this in one of the IE groups.

I know that with my company's website, there are certain registration
pages (for programs we're doing) we can't see when we're at the office,
but anyone clicking those links from outside our office can see them
just fine. It's got something to do with the ... oh, whaddaya call 'em?
.... the number thingamajigs in the website address. (How's that for
technical-speak? <g>)
 
Do you mean IP address?

Echo S said:
I'm thinking you might want to ask this in one of the IE groups.

I know that with my company's website, there are certain registration
pages (for programs we're doing) we can't see when we're at the office,
but anyone clicking those links from outside our office can see them
just fine. It's got something to do with the ... oh, whaddaya call 'em?
... the number thingamajigs in the website address. (How's that for
technical-speak? <g>)

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Colin said:
We are having trouble playing powerpoint slideshows from
the Internet in our school.
Slideshows (PPT or PPS files) which open fine through IE6
on our school Intranet are uploaded to our school website
for parents to see and our machines in the school will
then not open them from the Internet. When the option to
open or save appears we can save OK but when trying to
open we get "This page cannot be displayed."
The associations must be OK as they work fine locally
through Internet Explorer.
It is only from the Internet we have a problem. The
naming conventions are OK, ie no capitals or spaces in
the filenames. We are using Windows XP SP1a and IE6.
Any ideas?
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Yeah, that. :-) (LOLOL@myself!)
Do you mean IP address?

Echo S said:
I'm thinking you might want to ask this in one of the IE groups.

I know that with my company's website, there are certain registration
pages (for programs we're doing) we can't see when we're at the office,
but anyone clicking those links from outside our office can see them
just fine. It's got something to do with the ... oh, whaddaya call 'em?
... the number thingamajigs in the website address. (How's that for
technical-speak? <g>)

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Colin said:
We are having trouble playing powerpoint slideshows from
the Internet in our school.
Slideshows (PPT or PPS files) which open fine through IE6
on our school Intranet are uploaded to our school website
for parents to see and our machines in the school will
then not open them from the Internet. When the option to
open or save appears we can save OK but when trying to
open we get "This page cannot be displayed."
The associations must be OK as they work fine locally
through Internet Explorer.
It is only from the Internet we have a problem. The
naming conventions are OK, ie no capitals or spaces in
the filenames. We are using Windows XP SP1a and IE6.
Any ideas?
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Way too technical for me. LOL

You may also find the opposite true. For instance: the Intra-net (local
network) at work has multiple sites that are not accessible from outside of
our network. It has to do with the server permissions and protocols. I
know this because one of the tech guys was complaining that his complicated
doodad was flambozled by a hacker from an Australian thingamajig. But they
know that that wasn't where the hacker really was, it was just a mask he
used to hide his real thingamajigy. The tech guy was muttering about
changing the server permissions to lock out users from outside the network.

Schools are often targets for what-to-be hackers, so they may limit access
to some aspects of their pages. An outside user will have limited
privileges that may not include PPT files. Why not convert the PPT to HTML
and see if this fixes the problems for outside users?

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Echo S said:
Yeah, that. :-) (LOLOL@myself!)
Do you mean IP address?

Echo S said:
I'm thinking you might want to ask this in one of the IE groups.

I know that with my company's website, there are certain registration
pages (for programs we're doing) we can't see when we're at the office,
but anyone clicking those links from outside our office can see them
just fine. It's got something to do with the ... oh, whaddaya call 'em?
... the number thingamajigs in the website address. (How's that for
technical-speak? <g>)

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Colin Luscombe wrote:

We are having trouble playing powerpoint slideshows from
the Internet in our school.
Slideshows (PPT or PPS files) which open fine through IE6
on our school Intranet are uploaded to our school website
for parents to see and our machines in the school will
then not open them from the Internet. When the option to
open or save appears we can save OK but when trying to
open we get "This page cannot be displayed."
The associations must be OK as they work fine locally
through Internet Explorer.
It is only from the Internet we have a problem. The
naming conventions are OK, ie no capitals or spaces in
the filenames. We are using Windows XP SP1a and IE6.
Any ideas?
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